This book clarifies the mechanisms of economicglobalization in changing industries locations and shows how industries locations have changedthrough those mechanisms. First, the book deals with the retailing industry.Introducing the concept of a contactprice into the market area analysis, it is shown in Part I that retailersmarket areas and prices are changed in different ways by a reduction oftransportation costs. The mechanism of these changes is explained by checkingthe contact prices at apexes of the retailers market areas. Then the book movesto the manufacturing industry and deals with a firms production process. Part IIof the book shows the manner in which the production volume of factories withinan agglomeration is decreased as the number of factories within theagglomeration increases. Subsequently, considering the fact that many productionfactories depart from agglomerations to other sites to reduce production costs,a method of searching for a factorys new site is proposed in which a firm can seekout an optimal location of a factory in a short period of time. By referring toa chaotic phenomenon, a firm sets a locationprospective area in a large geographical area and selects an optimallocation within that area. In the third part of the book the city system is thefocus. Part III elucidates the theoretical formation of a city system andanalyzes structural changes of a city system due to a reduction oftransportation costs. The mechanism of the change is explained by a flexible market area theory which studiesa city system by using the market areas established in the free-entry equilibrium.Then, the economic relationships between the cities within a city system areexamined from the point of view of the land rent in the cities areas. Thisanalysis shows the influences of a change in the largest city on other cities. Finally,the relationships between a city system and regional performance are examinedusing real data. The examination shows that the city system reveals the regionalperformance.
Part I Location theory of retailing
industry.- 1 Market areas of retailers in linear space.- 1.1 Formation
mechanism of monopoly retailers market.- 1.2 Emergence of competition and
competition styles.- 1.3 Equilibrium price and market established in linear
market.- 2 Market areas of retailers in plane space.- 2.1 Shapes of market
border between two retailers.- 2.2 Market area in spatial free entry
equilibrium.- 2.3 Effects of variety of items on retailers market
situation.-
2.4 Effects of freight rate on items and market of shopping center.- 3
Market
analysis by Contact Price Curve.- 3.1 Derivation of spatial free-entry
equilibria.- 3.2 Analysis of spatial free-entry equilibria by using contact
price curve.- Part II Location theory of manufacturing industry.- 4 Change
of
factorys production in agglomeration.- 4.1 Formation of industrial
agglomeration.- 4.2 Relationship between number of factories and
agglomeration
economies.- 4.3 Spatial departure of production processes from
agglomeration.-
5 Location theory of factory in the globalized world.- 5.1 Factorys
location
in the globalized world.- 5.2 Derivation of the profit function of a firm.-
5.3
Settlement of location prospective area.- 5.4 Firms profits and revenues of
countries in different corporation tax rates.- 5.5 Location power of the
corporation tax and the interest rate.- 5.6 Effects on factorys location of
industrial park and industrial complex.- Part III Location theory of city
system.- 6 City systems built on basis of economic activity.- 6.1 City
systems
constructed on basis of market area theory.- 6.2 City system built by using
cities production functions.- 6.3 Change of city system in the real world.-
7
Analysis of city system by using cities land rents.- 7.1 Assumptions and
framework of analysis.- 7.2 Land rent and capital amount in city.- 7.3
Analysis
of Land rents and production amounts of cities in city system.- 7.4
Influences
of change of freight rates and production efficiency on cities.- 8 City
system
as a location factor.- 8.1 Role of city system in firms decision making of
location.- 8.2 Numerical index of characteristics of city system.- 8.3
Estimation of social health of prefectures in Japan.- 8.4 Relationships
between
city system and prefectures performances.- 8.5 City system as a location
factor.- Appendix.- References.
Toshiharu Ishikawa, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
